the dirt

Looks Like They Finally Got ‘Em

The Great Media Sweepstakes of Summer 2008 has a winner! Some lackey pool reporter was lucky enough to spy on Barack Obama’s private family vacation when his shirt was off. This reporter’s sweepstakes prize basket includes $100 in Delaware lottery tickets, a free dessert at Bennigan’s, and a comical CNN Political Ticker write-up to go alongside this, the most pathetic news photograph we’ve ever seen. [CNN]

Jim Newell is Wonkette's beloved Capitol Hill Typing Demon. He joined Wonkette.com in 2007, left for some other dumb job in 2010, and proudly returned in 2012 as our "Senior Editor at Large." He lives in Washington and also writes for things such as The Guardian, the Manchester paper of liberals.

He tried to go in for a dip but he couldn’t sink below the waves. Had no other option than to walk
on top of the foaming, wild sea. Then glide out onto the sand with the Hawaiian sun reflecting off his six pack.

NotUrEvryDayWEzl

FAIL. What the hell can I do with this? The best I can manage is to add it as a blurry tile on my Barry floor mosaic.

Serolf Divad

Oh, come on! It doesn’t count if he’s toweling off. Man, our Paparazzi sucks. In Europe we’d have pictures of a naked Barack and Michelle suggestively embracing in the ocean.

mattbolt

Looks like some shaky-handed photographer out there with the world’s smudgiest lens has been having a busy week! First he did some freelance work snapping John Edwards for the Enquirer, then took that hot Big Foot picture, then hit the beach to take a Pulitzer-eligible snapshot of a topless presidential candidate! Man, can we start a charity to buy this guy a nice entry-level Canon or Nikon?

Spence

At that distance it’s impossible to tell if he’s a but-her face or not.

expatinOz

Too grainy and the bloody towel is covering his chest! What a waste of my momentary excitement at more shirtless Barack photos.

mattbolt

This is the hottest erotic-voyeur-presidential-candidate-action I’ve seen since the days that the Washington Post ran a shot of a nude, oiled-up, spread-eagled Walter Mondale in ’84

economywine

weak sauce.

Serolf Divad

[re=60224]mattbolt[/re]:

Allright, I officially just lost my lunch.

graceless

[re=60210]mattbolt[/re]: Damnit. I was looking up the Britney video, and you win. I suck.

regisgoat

Oh, God, this is like the time John Kerry was caught windsurfing! Windsurfing! WINDSURFING! The Democrats lose! Humiliation, defeat!

Wee Mousie

Darn sneaky, that photojournalist. Tracking Obama to an unscheduled dip in the ocean when his superiors had assigned him to stake out the pool.

SaveMeeJeebus

Update your references Jim; Bennigan’s is dead. CONTEMPORIZE, MAN!

trophy(forparticipation)wife

Still none of him walking on water?

TGY

Did someone make him darker in that pic?

itgetter

Wow. Interesting mix of comments on CNN:

-what’s next? reporting him shaving as news?
-Unlike McCain, Obama campaigns 7 days a week.
-Are you guys serious? This isn’t news. Leave him alone.
-While Georgia is being brutally invaded……
-McCain was on top of the situation in Georgia and also sending his senator allies to monitor the situation in the capital of Georgia. Barack Obama on the beach enjoying the surf? Well, I think I know who I would trust to run this country.
-Ooh ooh! Did he have good pecs? Good abs?
-I’d ask for equal coverage of both candidates but I really don’t care to see a shirtless McCain at the beach. How about we just leave news items like this to the tabloids? This should be above CNN.

wheelie

[re=60235]trophy(forparticipation)wife[/re]: You didn’t hear? He turned all that water into wine just moments later.

[re=60220]Serolf Divad[/re]: Seriously, it’s surprising that some British tabloid hasn’t stepped forward to do the indecent thing and publish candid pics of his vacation. Or even just photoshop something hastily, and go, “SEXY NAKED BARACK ROMPS ON BEACH!!! – MORE fake IMAGES INSIDE!!!!”

AngryBlakGuy

…FAKE!!! If it really was Barack Obama, his penis would be dangling out of his pant leg!

If Obama gets elected and continues to vacation in Hawaii, I wonder if that will cause Hawaii to become a popular vacation destination? It’ll be interesting to find out. It happened to Hyannisport, but not to Crawford. So we’ll have to wait and see.

John McCain’s vacation would be a bus ride to Atlantic City, where they give you and the other seniors a roll of quarters so you can really cut loose.

SuperRounder

Well, now we know how Hopey got the gay firefighter vote.

Larry McAwful

[re=60278]SuperRounder[/re]: Yeah. Who knew it would only take collective bargaining rights to win them over?

NoWireHangers

What IS THAT? You call that a shirtless Barry pic? Not at all suitable for my masturbatorium. Next time, tell the pap to get the vaseline off the lense and into his hand like a REAL AMERICAN.

Johnny Zhivago

[re=60241]itgetter[/re]: If Georgia was paying me $40,000 I’d take their calls at 4am.

Johnny Zhivago

[re=60305]Johnny Zhivago[/re]: I meant to say “if georgia was paying me $40,000 a MONTH I’d take their calls at 4am”.

How about allowing EDITS of comments???

Oscar Folsom Cleveland

Really? Are you sure? Looks more like a Darfur refuge running from an enormous pile of Sudanese government forces’ cocaine.

Could be Bush, no? He’s been trying to kick his habit since that “fall down dead drunk” routine at the Pekin Orympics.

sarcasticusername

meh get back to me when you’ve got bikini pics of michelle. naked barry is so played out, he’s such an attention whore, look at him flashing those muscles he’s been working on at the gym, with that coquettish smile of his. bonus points for pics of the two hot pieces frolicking on the beach.

[re=60230]regisgoat[/re]: No way. Body surfing is anything BUT elitist. In Hawaii only the really poor kids who can’t afford surfboards go body surfing. Also, that beach he is at (called Sandy Beach) is a fucking hardcore place to surf. We’re taking neck-breaking shore break. The day the Iraq war started I got tossed and nearly snapped my spine. So, I’m a little surprised Hopey even got in there because even on a small day the swell there can be nutz.